hall

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A corridor; a hallway.
2. A large meeting room.
3. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
6. (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
7. A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
8. A living room.
9. A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
10. A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.

Concepten

hal

zaal

gang

vestibule

antichambre

eetzaal

studentenflat

herenhuis

villa

Hall

voorvertek

wachtkamer

huiskamer

living

salon

woonkamer

woonvertrek

zitkamer

baan

straat

doorgang

gangpad

overloop

passage

rijstrook

tunnel

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/hɔːl/

Etymologie (Engels)

Inherited from Middle English halle, from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house; palace, temple; law-court”), from Proto-West Germanic *hallu, from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”).
Cognate with Scots hall, haw (“hall”), Dutch hal (“hall”), German Halle (“hall”), Norwegian hall (“hall”), Swedish hall (“hall”), Icelandic höll (“palace”), Latin cella (“room, cell”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “house, mansion, hall”). Doublet of cell and cella.